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Schematic of WebLearn Infrastructure
Dave Stewart from the Infrastructure and Hosting team in IT Services sent me this diagram which details all the various hardware components that go to make up WebLearn. I thought it would make an interesting blog post. Here’s an explanation: … Continue reading
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The Digital Education Strategy and SHOAL
Guest post by Dr Lucy Tallents We are keen to make SHOAL relevant to the university’s new Digital Education Strategy, and the ongoing consultation on the DES in divisions and departments. We hope that the SHOAL portal will support staff … Continue reading
6 Tips For Good Web Design
We found a very interesting resource developed by usability guru Jakob Nielson which gives some points about good design. Here’s a condensed summary: People cannot use information they are unable to find: try to situate material in the most obvious place – try … Continue reading
Pasting from MS Word into WebLearn
We often get complaints about ugly and poorly formatted text in WebLearn which appears as a result of cutting and pasting from Microsoft Word. (All advice in this blog also applies to MS Outlook as it uses the same text … Continue reading
SHOAL project swims into view
A message from Lucy Tallents and Jocelyne Hughes We’re excited to announce that the SHOAL project has begun! Jocelyne and I are spreading the word about the project through various university channels, but we welcome direct contact from interested people, … Continue reading
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Planned maintenance, Turnitin, TurnitinUK, iThenticate, WriteCheck and Integrations -Saturday November 5
We have just received this announcement from TurnItIn As a reminder, next Saturday November 5, the following services will be unavailable from 1pm – 6pm GMTdue to necessary scheduled maintenance: Turnitin (including mobile) TurnitinUK iThenticate WriteCheck Integrations This maintenance will … Continue reading
Old-style URLs now redirect to the correct site
Astute observers may have noticed that “hierarchy URLs” changed between WebLearn 10 and WebLearn 11. In WebLearn 10, the URL of the Faculty of History was https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/humdiv/history in WebLearn 11, this was changed (for technical reasons) to https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/site/:humdiv:history However, WebLearn … Continue reading
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WebLearn unavailable Tuesday 25 October 7-9am
WebLearn will be unavailable between 7-9am on Tuesday 25 October 2016, there will be no service during this period. This action is necessary to allow IT Services staff to apply essential security fixes to the underlying Linux servers. Please accept our … Continue reading
How to upload files into WebLearn via WebDAV using WinSCP
You will need to use WebDAV when uploading multiple files, or a large file (> 60MB) into WebLearn. However, we have had reports of users experiencing problems with Microsoft Windows when trying to connect to WebLearn via WebDAV; people are seeing reports … Continue reading
WebLearn upgraded to Version 11-ox2 on 7 October 2016
WebLearn was upgraded to version 11-ox2 on 7th October 2016. This release addresses some minor issues with WebLearn 11 and introduces some new functionality. If you would like to suggest improvements to WebLearn then please do so by contributing to the WebLearn User Voice feedback service. Improvements … Continue reading